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Yes, It’s Time for a Security Gap Assessment

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For many organizations, rapidly implementing work-from-home initiatives over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic required quickly rolling out new processes and deploying new technologies without adequate time for attention to Information Security standards. Perhaps your company recently acquired a new line of business, and you want to make sure the integration won’t adversely…

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Navigating Transformation with Managed Cybersecurity Services

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The coronavirus pandemic has added new layers to the threat landscape facing corporate security leaders in 2020 and going into 2021, as well. As businesses and workforces sought to adapt rapidly to remote working at scale, malicious groups and other th… Continue reading Navigating Transformation with Managed Cybersecurity Services→

Navigating Transformation with Managed Cybersecurity Services

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The coronavirus pandemic has added new layers to the threat landscape facing corporate security leaders in 2020 and going into 2021, as well. As businesses and workforces sought to adapt rapidly to remote working at scale, malicious groups and other th… Continue reading Navigating Transformation with Managed Cybersecurity Services→

How I Retained My QSA Certification

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In 2019, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council (SSC) modified the Qualification Requirements for Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) employees. Prior to the modification, the requirements stipulated that QSA employees must hold either an Information Security certification or an audit certification, but now QSA employees must have a minimum of two (2) industry certifications:…

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Using Effectiveness Assessments to Identify Quick Wins

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An organization’s overall security posture can be viewed from multiple different angles, such as technical assessments, program assessments, controls assessments, and risk assessments. A number of different frameworks for each of these assessment types exist, intended to help both technical teams as well as leadership organize security program building activities. Some of these include: Penetration…

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How startups can leverage elastic services for cost optimization

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The landscape shifts quickly, but managed services providers enable organizations to repurpose full-time staff members from impacted operations to more strategic product lines or initiatives. Continue reading How startups can leverage elastic services for cost optimization→

Want Better Alerting? Consider Your Business Processes

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Logging, monitoring, and alerting programs are some of the most critical elements of any security and compliance program, but traditional approaches for implementing and upgrading these capabilities are often noisy, expensive, and laborious. Traditional Alerting Approaches are Failing During program assessments, we find that a lot of clients are generating so many alerts that they…

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Securing a Remote Workforce: Top Five Things to Focus on For Everyone

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Deploying a remote workforce is uncharted territory for some organizations, while others have been perfecting the model for years. Most security programs have different ways to handle their workforce. For on-premise users, which has traditionally used more of castle mentality where you attempt to prevent outsiders from penetrating the network perimeter (similar to a castle…

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Akamai Expands Managed Security Services

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Akamai this week announced it has added a secure web gateway capability to its portfolio of managed security services, while at the same time extending the reach of its service for mitigating the impact of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack… Continue reading Akamai Expands Managed Security Services→

Who’s the Boss? Is cloud IT working for you or are you working for IT?

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Who’s the Boss? Is Cloud IT working for you or are you working for IT? Since launching our Touch Cloud private compute service in 2016, it’s attracted commercial, public and third- sector customers that want a trusted partner to help speci… Continue reading Who’s the Boss? Is cloud IT working for you or are you working for IT?→